Powerful categories of evidence for symbolically mediated behaviour, variously described
as 'modern'or 'cognitively modern'human behaviour, are geometric or iconographic …

Palaeolithic stone plaquettes are a type of mobiliary art featuring engravings and recovered
primarily from Magdalenian sites, where they can number from single finds to several …

Approaches to Palaeolithic art have increasingly shifted beyond the traditional focus on
engraved or depicted forms in isolation, to appreciating the sensorial experience of art …

This paper focuses on the analysis of the economic aspects of rock art production. Such
analysis is based on a theoretical perspective that widens the narrow association between …

Residue analyses are widely applied to studies of stone tool function and can be a powerful
method for determining the past tool use (s), especially when combined with other functional …

In this article we review the history of the terms and ideas that have been used to
conceptualize Paleolithic art since the end of the 19th century. Between 1900 and 1970 …

Archaeological evidence associated with modern cognitive abilities provides important
insights into when and where modern human behaviour emerged. Modern human …

This chapter develops a theoretical framework focused on the materiality of rock art. It
argues against a Cartesian ontology that locates art in an exclusively ideal/symbolic realm …

Much of our knowledge of the symbolic world of Upper Palaeolithic hunter-gatherers is
based on the study of the graphic representations found in Western European caves …

Anthropogenic engravings were made within more than 2000 small natural cavities found in
the sandstone boulder fields of the central Paris Basin, in an area of 1800 km 2 to west of the …